[null and void]

Fundamentally the only sources of wealth are to
• Extract it - fishing, forestry, mining and drilling
• Grow it - farming
• Manufacture it - from resources extracted or grown
• Transport it - from where it is to where it is needed

Taking in each others laundry (also known as a service economy) doesn’t create wealth, it just spreads it thinner and thinner until it is all gone.

[glowworm]

<"Fundamentally the only sources of wealth are to • Extract it - fishing, forestry, mining and drilling • Grow it - farming • Manufacture it - from resources extracted or grown • Transport it - from where it is to where it is needed Taking in each others laundry (also known as a service economy) doesn’t create wealth, it just spreads it thinner and thinner until it is all gone."/>

EXACTLY what I was taught many years ago. Another might be knowledge based ideas that can be used and/or sold. Also I was taught that to improve a local ecomomy, such items be sold outside of one's locality to increase local wealth.

[RFEngineer]

No, you’re all wrong. The only sources of wealth are:

* Tax it from “the rich”
* Tax it from “Big Business”
* “Solar Energy” and other “Green Jobs”
* Returns on “Investment” in human capital
* Get the Federal Reserve to print more of it
* Give it to government employees and welfare recipients to multiply by spending it in “the economy” as stimulus